iC: Inbox [Asgard]

[bythewaves]

My apologies for my absence
The wind may wander as it wills, and so betimes do I
If you wish, you may leave me a message

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[bythewaves]

What can be done, that I will do. [ He promises - it is the only one he knows he can keep ]

She will be as safe as I can manage, yenya.

[digophelia]

That's my job, Mr. Maglor.

[bythewaves]

And I have a share in that now. Is that such a bad thing, little butterfly?

[digophelia]

[ She says nothing, turning to glance over to something else. She doesn't say that it is a bad thing.

She's terrified of losing everyone again. ]

[bythewaves]

[ He knows, he'll sit here waiting patiently until she's ready to face it ]

[digophelia]

[ Alice is almost incapable of lying to another; she won't lie. At this point in time, she can't answer it, not with her short temper and the anger that she feels for that question. The whole situation. For a moment, Alice wonders if it was ever worth doing what she could to protect the other girls. It's the story of her life. ]

So life is a series of unfortunate circumstances and I am, as always, fortune's fool.

[bythewaves]

You have never been anyone's fool, Alice [ he corrects gently ]

Unfortunate as they have been, you would not have survived them if you truly were. When I first came here, there was one who gave me courage - River, was her name. Do you know? She was broken, as badly as I have ever seen, but she danced still, a bird with clipped wings. She told me, before Asgard took her away, that she was glad that things had happened as they did, because they allowed her to befriend me. I will always grieve my past, and yours also - yet, I am grateful, for it has made you strong, gwilwileth, and it has not broken you.

[digophelia]

[ Alice would say that she is broken. As usual, Alice feels that she is unworthy of such affection. She'll just take this a slight defeat, knowing that he'll treat the children appropriately in training. ]

I am glad to have met all of you, too, Mr. Maglor.

[bythewaves]

As I am you, yenya.

[digophelia]

Ah-

[ As soon as the term of endearment comes to mind in his mother language, Alice awkwardly freezes up. She can't, it feels like she would be betraying her own father. Wouldn't she give for him meeting Maglor -- he would adore him. All of her family. ]

If you take the little one, I want to be there.

[ It isn't a question, it's a statement. He'll see how protective she is of little Alice. ]

[bythewaves]

You know you are always welcome, Alice. [ She knows the rules of the Citadel, after all - so long as she does not transgress them, Maglor is happy enough for her to be there at any time she pleases, with or without him ]

[digophelia]

Good.

[ Alice is not making promises from being an overprotective sister, however. ]

[bythewaves]

[ A soft laugh ] Then I will see you there. [ he would not doubt it ]